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9/11 Public Projection by Local Artist Ben Wood

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Remembering 9/11 at St. Ignatius Church, University of San Francisco

ARTIST’S VIDEO PROJECTION  Beginning at sundown
A new commissioned video piece by artist Ben Wood will be projected onto the façade of St. Ignatius Church before and after the service. During the service a special program of LED lighting will be on view inside the Church.

INTERFAITH SERVICE  8pm
An interfaith service commemorating the anniversary with local leaders of the Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths.

PUBLIC RECEPTION  Following the service
Join us for a reception hosted by University Ministry following the service in the Fromm Building behind St. Ignatius Church for refreshments and fellowship.

ABOUT THE COMMEMORATION
St. Ignatius Church and Manresa Gallery are pleased to announce a special interfaith service with an accompanying artist’s project on Sunday, September 11 to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the September 11th World Trade Center Attacks. The University of San Francisco’s University Ministry hosts a service led by Rabbi Allen B. Bennett (Temple Israel), Sister Bhawana Kamil, (Muslim American Society) and Father John A. Coleman, S.J. (St. Ignatius Church). In conjunction, Manresa Gallery presents new work by San Francisco based, British artist Ben Wood, whose commissioned video work commemorates the lives lost in 2001. Wood’s video will be presented on the façade of St. Ignatius Church beginning at sundown, continuing into the evening after the service. A special program of LED lighting illuminating the interior of the Church will also be on view during the service. Please join us for a public reception following the service hosted by University Ministry.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Ben Wood is a British visual artist based in San Francisco who is deeply committed to improving community relations through art that is both engaging and accessible to the public. Wood received his BFA in Digital Media from the San Francisco Art Institute and a Master’s Degree in Visual Studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the recipient of the California Governor’s Award for Historic Preservation for his work to preserve the Mission Dolores mural in 2004 and the 0-1 Visa for Artists of Extraordinary Ability. Since 2004, he has carried out over 5 large-scale video projections onto Coit Tower in San Francisco. Wood’s work has been shown at the Museo Nacional de Arte in México City, the London Jewish Museum, and the East West Center in Honolulu.

PHOTOS
View more photos of the event here.

PRESS
San Francisco Sentinel
SF Weekly
San Francisco Chronicle
Office of the Mayor: Remembering 9/11

For more information please contact Tamara Loewenstein at tamara@manresagallery.org or call 415.422.6639

Photos by Madeline Brown 

Preparing for NY Artist Tobi Kahn’s Solo Exhibition

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“These paintings and ceremonial objects are not static; they are in communion with those who sit in their midst, awakening new and renewed ways of seeing, deepening ways of doing, and revealing beauty in light dazzling and evanescent. In this sacred space, we are porous to each other and to God.”

– Tobi Kahn, The Meaning of Beauty

The last month at Manresa Gallery has been a busy one as we prepare for the solo exhibition  Sacred Synergies: Works by Tobi Kahn opening on October 17, 2010. Kahn who hails from New York City, will present a talk, Creating Sacred Space, prior to the opening reception in the gallery.

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The exhibition includes 4  large scale paintings from a series originally created for a permanent installation in Congregation Emanu-El B’ne Jeshurun in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; URAH a series of 12 smaller paintings from the evolution of his larger and continuing Sky/Water series; and a collection of smaller Jewish  ceremonial objects. Tobi Kahn is a painter and sculptor whose work has been shown in over 40 solo exhibitions and over 60 museum and groups shows since he was selected as one of nine artists to be included in the 1985 Guggenheim Museum exhibition, New Horizons in American Art. Works by Kahn are in major museum, corporate, and private collections.

For thirty years, Kahn has been steadfast in the pursuit of his distinct vision and persistent in his commitment to the redemptive possibilities of art. In paint, stone, and bronze, he has explored the correspondence between the intimate and monumental. While his early works drew on the tradition of American Romantic landscape painting, his more recent pieces reflect his fascination with contemporary science, inspired by the micro-images of cell formations and satellite photography.


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Kahn’s belief in art’s spiritual capacity is at odds with the contemporary emphasis on irony and displacement. As Peter Selz, the curator, wrote: “His paintings and his sculptures, executed with consummate craftsmanship, are animated by a yearning for the transcendent…at a time when the concept of beauty has become anathematized in critical discourse and the perception of the spiritual remains marginalized in the discussions of the art world.”

Learn more about Tobi Kahn on his website

SACRED SYNERGIES: WORKS BY TOBI KAHN
October 17, 2010 – January 9, 2011

ARTIST’S TALK
Creating Sacred Space
Sunday, October 17 / 10:45am-12:00pm
Xavier Hall [Fromm Building], USF campus

OPENING RECEPTION
Sunday, October 17  / 12:00-2:00pm
Manresa Gallery, St. Ignatius Church

DISCUSSION
Jewish, Christian, and Buddhist Responses to Art + Healing
A Conversation with Clergy
Sunday, November 14 / 3:00-4:30pm
Manresa Gallery, St. Ignatius Church